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UNIONS MUST JOIN ACTION! say Defend Chase Farm NHS fighters

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‘SAY “No’’ to this sham consultation!’, shouted dozens of angry local residents fighting to save Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, as they demonstrated outside...

Defend Chase Farm NHS!

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‘The consultation process has been an absolute sham’, said Save Chase Farm councillor Kieran McGregor ahead of this morning’s lobby of the NHS Independent...
JJB Sports striking GMB members lobbying the DTI in London yesterday with the ‘dog that did not bark’ to demand that the Employment Agencies Standards Inspectorate enforce the law in their dispute

‘Enforce the law’ against strikebreakers demand GMB

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STRIKING JJB Sports warehouse staff from Wigan went to London yesterday, to demand the government takes action to uphold the law against strike-breaking by...
Marchers in Nottingham on September 23 determined to fight any cuts to the NHS

77 NHS TRUSTS FACE AXE! – GMB will oppose says Sharon Holder

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Trade union leaders were meeting with health secretary Hewitt yesterday evening, on the day news emerged of a leaked ‘hit list’ of 77 NHS...

SLEEPING ON THE STREETS! – treatment of asylum seekers condemned

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REFUSED asylum-seekers are eating out of bins and sleeping in parks, public toilets and phone-boxes because of government policy New reports show government...
Many young Palestinians, victims of Israeli attacks on the Intifada were treated for their injuries in Baghdad hospitals at the invitation of Saddam Hussein

Hammas Condemns Saddam Death Sentence

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THE Hamas Palestinian government has condemned the death sentence handed down to Saddam Hussein, recalling the help the Iraqi leader gave...

A DATABASE FOR ALL – Blair plans ultra modern police state

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday urged support for ID cards, and a national database on everyone, for ‘less than £30’ above the cost of new...

‘DOWN WITH TRAITORS’ – Declares defiant Saddam Hussein

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‘Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Death to the occupiers! Death to Israel! Death to the traitors!’ shouted a defiant Iraqi President...
The platform including (left to right) JOHN McDONNELL, standing DAVE WILTSHIRE, HARBINDER SINGH, LAKHVINDER, and PARMJIT BAINS

Gate Gourmet Rally Is A Huge Success

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‘We’ve been fighting for more than one year and we are coming close to victory. Our hearing starts next week and we are very,...

Pilots Won’t Accept BA Pensions Diktat

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The British Air Line Pilots Association (Balpa) warned yesterday that there is an increasing likelihood of a strike ballot over British Airways’ proposed changes...
Young Socialists Student Society

Young Socialists Student Society

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Public lectures – Trotskyism today
Gate Gourmet sacked workers marching through Southall on August 20 this year to mark the first yearof their struggle. Now they are campaigning for a successful rally this Sunday on the eve of their employment tribunal

Gate Gourmet Rally This Sunday

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are inviting all trade unionists and their families and friends to come to their rally in Southall Community Centre, Merrick...
ALEX PEREIRA, cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes

‘SHOCK AND DISBELIEF’ – of de Menezes family at new police killing

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The family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday expressed ‘shock and disbelief at the news that officers involved in the killing of Jean Charles...
Health workers determined to defend their hospital and jobs demonstrating in Nottingham – the trade unions must take action to defend both

KEEP ALL DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITALS OPEN! – unions must take strike action

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NO TO PRIVATISATION! SAVE OUR DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITALS! BLAIR AND BROWN OUT! THE Blair government is gunning for District General Hospitals – David Nicholson, the Chief Executive...
A section of the 5,000-strong march through Nottingham determined to defend NHS jobs and A&E services

903 NHS COMPULSORY SACKINGS! – Trade unions must act

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‘We will be consulting our members on what action should be taken to defend these NHS jobs’, GMB trade union national officer Sharon...
A section of the 25,000-strong march on London’s Embankment yesterday

RESTORE FREE EDUCATION! – demand 25,000 marching students

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‘IN GREECE and France they have changed things by taking to the streets – you can change things,’ University and College Union joint general...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers campaigning at Heathrow airport and winning big support

Baggage Handlers Support Gg Workers

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers got great support when they visited Heathrow Airport yesterday in their campaign for their public meeting on Sunday November 5th. Many...
Greek school youth demonstrating through Athens in support of their teachers last week

Salonica Teachers Clash With Police

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ANGRY teachers and students fought with police yesterday in Salonica, turning Tsimiski Street, a central highway of the city, into a battleground. The normally festive...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaigning at Heathrow airport yesterday

Support mounting for Gate Gourmet meeting

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MANY Heathrow Airport workers, most of them Transport and General Workers Union members, bought their tickets yesterday for the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers pre-Tribunal...
Hertfordshire firefighters lobbied Downing St in March over the announced closure of fire stations, rather than attend  Blair’s reception for Buncefield fire heroes

BETRAYED! – Radlett fire station closed

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ON Monday 23rd October Hertfordshire County Council gave five hours notice of closure of Radlett fire station, betraying understandings and agreements made with...

Trade unions must draw up their own cost of living index

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YESTERDAY the UNISON trade union pointed out what most health workers know from hard experience, that; ‘Huge increases in the basics of life eat...

Heathrow Strike Warning

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Changes to shifts and rosters at Scandinavian Airways at Heathrow (SAS), now to be known as Scandinavian Ground Services (SGS), may lead to industrial...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaigning at Hounslow bus garage yesterday where they received lots of support

Gate Courmet Campaign

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‘It’s shameful the way Gate Gourmet workers have been treated by both the company and the union,’ Hounslow local government UNISON assistant branch secretary...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ campaign team with Ealing Town Hall UNISON Branch officer STEVE BARTON and Branch Secretary CHRIS MOREY

Workers buy tickets for GG locked-out workers rally

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‘GATE Gourmet are not going to get away with what they did, sacking us for no reason,’ said Raj Sahdev yesterday on the locked-out...
RCN leader BEVERLY MALONE with UNISON health official KAREN JENNINGS at the centre of the ‘NHS Together’ platform yesterday morning

‘A PAY CUT OF 7-10 PER CENT’ – NHS unions don’t rule out industrial...

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Fourteen trade unions representing nurses, physiotherapists, radiographers, occupational therapists and other NHS staff have joined forces to challenge the government’s 1.5 per cent limit...
RCN members rallying in central London in May against all cuts to the NHS

RCN DEMANDS MORE NURSES – LABOUR DEMANDS £2bn CUTS

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Patients staying in hospitals where there are fewer nurses on the wards are more likely to die or experience complications, according to a major...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaigning on Southall High Street with KIRAN GILL (extreme left) and THOMAS MURPHY

Big Support For Gate Gourmet Workers Meeting!

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Gate Gourmet locked-out workers were campaigning yesterday on Southall Broadway near Heathrow Airport for their public meeting on Sunday November 5th. The meeting is being...

JOBS AND PENSIONS UNDER THREAT – as Tata moves to take over Corus...

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THE Transport and General Workers Union has reacted with caution to the news that Indian conglomerate Tata has bought steelmaker Corus, formerly British Steel,...

Hamas Leader Escapes Assassination Attempt

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Palestinian prime minister, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya escaped an assassination attempt yesterday. Haniya was unhurt after his convoy came under heavy gunfire in Gaza, witnesses...
Nurses marching in Nottingham last month demanding no cuts to the NHS

AN ‘OUTRAGEOUS PAY CUT’! – UNISON & RCN reject pay board threats

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Trade unions representing nurses, midwives and health workers covered by the ‘independent’ Pay Review Body (PRB), yesterday reacted angrily to a government-proposed huge ‘pay...
Students, who are part of the first year to pay £3,000 fees, showing their opposition to all fees

‘DISASTROUS’ DROP IN STUDENT NUMBERS – says National Union

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THE NUS has described a drop in the numbers of students going to university as ‘deeply worrying’, and has called on the Government to...
PCS members on the picket line outside the National Gallery yesterday, determined to defend their pay and conditions

Mass Picket At The National Gallery

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THE opening of the long-awaited Velázquez exhibition was disrupted yesterday, as 140 non-shift attendants walked out for the first one-day strike in the 200-year...

‘Next three months absolutely critical for NHS’ – Blair

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‘Whether it’s redundancies or posts not being filled, thousands of jobs are still being lost in the NHS,’ a British Medical Association spokesman...
BOB CROW (right) with Thames watermen. He warned that a ‘dilution of safety’ would be met with industrial action

‘NO DILUTION OF SAFETY’ – Crow warns of Thames Waterway industrial action

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‘There must be no dilution of safety and if we find that our members are put in danger then there will have to be...

China No! To North Korea Blockade!

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China has refused to search North Korean ships, throwing US attempts to enforce a blockade and sanctions into disarray. The United States is urging China...

Chinese workers taking action against major Western companies

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THE Chinese Stalinist bureaucracy and its big business friends are under attack from the Chinese working class, which is insisting that the super-exploitation of...
Health workers fighting to save Grantham Hospital on the 5,000-strong march through Nottingham last month

GPs to operate in surgeries – Labour continues drive to undermine NHS hospitals

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Government plans to downgrade district general hospitals in favour of care in the community are being pushed forward with the announcement of plans to...

BLAIR ‘BREAKING’ ARMY – chief of staff urges withdrawal from Iraq

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The Blair government was yesterday paralysed in the face of a mutiny by Britain’s Chief of the General Staff who demanded...

Flawed Intelligence Being Used In Secret No Jury Courts

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Human rights group Liberty yesterday called on Home Secretary Reid to explain a ‘flawed’ secret intelligence scandal to Parliament. Liberty said: ‘A security-cleared judgement...

MIGRANT WORKERS ARE SUPER-EXPLOITED AT STANSTEAD AIRPORT says GMB

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Migrant workers are being shortchanged by enforced ‘self-employment’ status, says the GMB trade union. The GMB yesterday called on aircraft services company Swissport to directly...

655,000 iraqis have died as a result of 2003 invasion – says Lancet magazine

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AN estimated 655,000 more Iraqis have died as a consequence of the March 2003 military invasion of Iraq than would have been expected in...
Bereaved families lobbying parliament yesterday. LINZI HERBERTSON is third from left and LINDA WHELAN is sixth from left

JAIL THE BOSSES! – who cause the deaths of workers

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‘I feel as though they killed my son and the government is covering up for them. It is one big cover up,’ Linda Whelan...
Greek police. There have been a number ov violent police attacks on the teachers

Greek Police Assault Teachers’ Leaders

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Greek trade union leaders have called a general strike today after armed riot police furiously attacked teachers union leaders on Monday with batons and...
A delegation of nurses and representatives of patient charities outside Downing Street yesterday

Rcn Demands ‘A Pause’

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A PETITION signed by over 46,000 nurses and members of the public was delivered to 10 Downing Street yesterday by a delegation from the...
Shipbreakers KHALANI ISMAIL (left), DHANANJAY YADAV (centre) and (right) VIDYADHAR RANE, secretary of the Mumbai Port Trust, Dock and General Employees’ Union

Shipbreakers Demand Action

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FIFTEEN per cent of the 65,000 workers employed in scrapping ships at sites on India’s west coast are suffering from asbestosis. The shocking statistic...